Beijing +15
The year 2010 will mark 15 years since the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BPfA). The 8th Africa Regional Conference on Women (Beijing +15) in Banjul was an opportunity for women in Africa to examine their respective government’s efforts at implementing the BPfA since the last review in 2004, and hold them accountable for commitments they made to women’s human rights.
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Promoting a multisectoral approach to the Protocol on women's rights
SOAWR in collaboration with the AU Women, Gender and development Directorate and UNIFEM have concluded in Kigali, Rwanda a stakeholders' meeting on the implementation of the AU Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa. Read more...
What can the Pan African Parliament do to accelerate the implementation of African Union Decisions?
Irungu Houghton of Oxfam was at the Pan African Parliament's 2009 Speakers conference presenting a paper on the role that the PAP should play to ensure that all AU protocols and treaties, including the Protocol on women in Africa, are ratified and implemented by all African states.